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- Standard practice
- Disposable gloves are used for all procedures, and are changed multiple times throughout each procedure to avoid contamination of the client and surfaces in the work area.
- All other products used in the procedure; ie. gauze, ointments, ink caps, or razors are single use disposable.
- All needles are single use disposable. They are pre-sterilized off site by the manufacturer before use and in front of the client, disposed of in a appropriate sharps container after the procedure.
- Any instruments that are not single use disposable (ie. forceps or receiving tubes), are soaked with a hard surface disinfectant, moved to an ultra sonic to remove any debris and then sterilized in a properly tested autoclave before reuse.
- All jewelry used in new piercings is first cleaned in the ultrasonic to remove any polishing compounds, packaged with a heat sealer, and then sterilized in a properly tested autoclave.
- Autoclave explained
- Autoclaves achieve sterilization through the use of intense steam-heat and pressure over an extended period of time.
- Any autoclave being used for sterilizing equipment should be tested (called a spore test) by an independent lab at least once a month.
- At HBA we test our autoclave weekly.
- In addition we use a combination of package indicators which react to heat exposure and integrators which react to time, temperature, and pressure to monitor every autoclave load.
